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The pilgrim hawk : a love story / Glenway Wescott ; introduction by Michael Cunningham.
Van Pelt Library PS3545.E827 P5 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wescott, Glenway, 1901-1987.
- Series:
- New York Review Books classics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hawks.
- Irish.
- France.
- Americans--France--Fiction.
- Americans.
- Irish--France--Fiction.
- Novelists--Fiction.
- Novelists.
- France--Fiction.
- Hawks--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Love stories.
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- xx, 108 pages ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York Review Books, [2001]
- Summary:
- This powerful short novel describes the events of a single afternoon. Alwyn Towers, an American expatriate and sometime novelist, is staying with a friend outside of Paris, when a well-heeled, itinerant Irish couple drops in--with Lucy, their trained hawk, a restless, sullen, disturbingly totemic presence. Lunch is prepared, drink flows. A masquerade, at once harrowing and farcical, begins. A work of classical elegance and concision, "The Pilgrim Hawk" stands with Faulkner's "The Bear" as one of the finest American short novels: a beautifully crafted story that is also a poignant evocation of the implacable power of love.
- Notes:
- "Originally published: Harper and Brothers, 1940."--T.p. verso.
- ISBN:
- 0940322560
- OCLC:
- 45172111
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